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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 18, 1914
Page
3
The Chicago discussion centers on a proposed city charter with calls for reforms. Women are actively participating in the debate, urging changes to structure and governance while local voices weigh preferred changes to the charter’s provisions.
The fragment details a drowning yesterday of Loy alty Reilly-Pat. A union man swam for eight hours before quitting. The dialogue parodies aging and social banter, ending with a note on a thin marquise and a playful exchange about ages.
A 16 year old New Orleans girl reports severe illness but states she improved greatly after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Other letters from teens praise the remedy for varied symptoms including headaches and nervous spells, urging readers to seek advice confidentially.
Dr Albert Wilson, a noted criminologist, criticized English schooling at the International Club for Psychical Research. He warned that education has produced starved or overloaded brains, showing brain sections to contrast healthy and damaged minds and suggesting some individuals belong in lunatic asylums.
Sir Thomas Oliver of Durham College of Medicine argues for compulsory training for all young men. He says athleticism is over rated and rowing or football can overdevelop the heart. He favors military training for its balanced physical and mental discipline and national benefits. New York Sun.
A London Daily Express summary notes four major firms warn the Plumage Bill cannot enforce bans on hats with prohibited feathers purchased before enactment. It highlights loopholes allowing feathery theft of legality and questions how to prevent evasion without harming reputable firms.
The passage recounts Alexander dying after a debauched feast or poison wine, Hannibal dying by poison in exile after defeat, and Caesar assassinated by close allies. It frames these rulers as overwhelmed by hubris, war, and political treachery.
The Philadelphia Ledger humorously depicts a domestic scene where the husband praises the new cook for perfect soup fish and roasted vegetables while the wife remarks that the dessert is by her successor.
A Harper's Weekly writer explains how corn pops. A kernel contains tightly packed starch grains inside cell-like compartments. Heat converts moisture to steam, causing an internal explosion that turns the grain inside out into a snow white starch mass.
Mrs H Gray postmistress of Tichborre Frontenac Ontario recounts two years of nervous weakness and breathlessness relieved after four boxes of Dodd’s Kidney Pills. She credits improved kidney function with restoring energy and sleep, noting the pill’s cure of the kidneys as the natural remedy.
Augustus and Angelina climb the Alps when Angelina looks down and sees a long white streak that she calls a paper ribbon, a hotel bill stretching far below. Augustus jokes that the bill is overtaking them, in a light Tit-Bits style vignette.
An advertisement extols Parmelee's Vegetable Pill as a trusted standard medicine made from all vegetable substances. It claims to aid sluggish digestion and suit even weak stomachs. A separate joke notes a man suing for slander after being called a rhinoceros years earlier, with the punchline about the first later incident.
Advertising blurb touts Bromo Quinine laxative claims. It urges seeking the genuine full name Laxative Bromo Quinine and notes signature of E. W. Grove. Sold for 25 cents.
Science builds an airtight container at Greenwich Point to thaw solid mass coal in a forty to fifty minute cycle. Twenty one loaded cars back into the oven while hot air loosens contents, allowing quick unloading. The method replaces days of hard labor with a swift, high temp process.
A humorous exchange from the Pittsburgh Post has Sir Lance noting shirts of mail are mangled by laundries and Sir Oak agreeing that garments return with rivets missing or shy. The light dialogue highlights comic medieval satire on laundry care.
Mrs Eugene Mers of Pembroke Ontario reports a severe scalding incident when a boiler of boiling water spilled on her legs. She applied Zam-Buk and the pain and sores healed rapidly. Zam-Buk marketed for burns and other injuries with 50c price through druggists and the Zam-Buk Co Toronto.
St. Louis Republic recounts the long friendship between Sir William Harcourt and Sir Henry James after the home rule bill rupture. Lord Morris notes the charm of their bond, while Harcourt compares their closeness to Cain and Abel and calls them brothers.
A humorous quote from the Chicago Record-Herald notes a speaker stating he has arranged finances so both sons-in-law can live at the expense of stockholders, implying rising living costs.
In a small county village a merchant faced arson charges with a special prosecutor. When questioned about supporting the prosecutor a witness quipped I never did not a cent for your family. The court rang with laughter as the man left muttering I ain't got no family. Miss Marie's church sight gag ends with a quip about hymn three forty three.
An old ad touts Shiloh the family remedy for coughs and colds with a small bottle note and claim best since 1870. The page also includes quips from Kansas City Journal and Punch cartoons about divorce, dividing valuables, lies, golfing, and a painter’s tire repair joke.
Advertises Nerviline as a universal cure for neuralgia backache lumbago and rheumatism. Includes a testimonial from Albert B. Cornelius of Kingston praising relief after rubbing Nerviline and taking Ferrozone Tablets. Claims small and large bottle sizes and wide family use with improved appetite and blood purification.
A historical note recalls Bromsgrove in Worcester shire as the heart of tack making with handwork. Craftsmen forged up to twelve hundred tacks small enough to fit a goose quill barrel, weighing about twenty grains.
A brief, witty exchange toys with generations in a classroom vignette. A governess claims fluency from youth, while a student remarks on changes in teaching, highlighting evolving language instruction.
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